I swapped systems over yesterday and am now running on my new Chakra box. I'm pretty happy with it so far, very responsive almost clean-looking and it's removed a few annoyances I was living with on the PCLOS system which had slowly built-up.

I had a few problems with the audio, but that just needed a bit of head scratching and googling and is fine now. My printer went on without fuss, but I haven't got my scanner working yet (I will though, same thing on my previous distros).

Chakra has an interesting system for non-KDE software in that GTK and other non-KDE applications are presented as "bundles" with a sort of seperate package manager called the Bundle Manager. Things like GIMP, Firefox, Thunderbird are handled from there and each installed to its own little virtual hard drive. It was quite unnerving when I first opened Dolphin to see all these small hard drives, until I understood what was going on. Each application basically has it's own filesystem with all it needs to run installed therein.

Chakra by the way only comes in one flavour - 64-bit with KDE.